SALARIES OF NATIONAL COAL BOARD EXECUTIVES NOT DISCLOSED

Evening Star, Issue 26155, 17 July 1947, Page 7

SALARIES OF NATIONAL COAL BOARD EXECUTIVES NOT DISCLOSED

IN.Z.P.A. Special riirragpoititaht • LONDON, July 16. Mr H. A. Marquand, the paymaster? general, in the House of Commons defended the Government’s policy of refusing to disclose the salaries paid to higher-paid executives in the employ of the National Coal Board by claiming that it would not be conducive to good management if these matters were subject to constant inquiry. j Mr Marquand was replying to Wingcommander N. J. Hulbert (Stockport), who said the House knew nothing of Coal Board salaries beyond the fact that they saw a large number of cars in London bearing the board’s insignia and that'it was a matter of common report that one man appointed by the board was drawing a salary equal to and more than that of a Cabinet Minister. Mr Marquand said where the Minister of Mines made an appointment the salary would be disclosed to the House, but the Government felt that if it published Hi° salaries paid to all employees it would not be conducive to efficiency. The salaries would he laid before Parliament in bulk form when. tb° aecounts of the board were presented.